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Shorts
‘Geri’s Game’ Turns 20: Director Jan Pinkava Reflects On The Game-Changing Pixar Short
‘Geri’s Game’ director Jan Pinkava sits down with Cartoon Brew for an in-depth interview on the Pixar short’s 20th anniversary.
Dreamworks Is Going To Start Adding Shorts In Front Of Its Theatrical Films
Details on the studio’s new program for original shorts.
Exclusive Premiere: ‘Plant Room,’ A 360-Short By Jeron Braxton And Julian Glander
Watch the premiere of the 360-short “Plant Room,” which examines the heavy influence of technology on our lives.
Meet The Disney Artists Who Have Gone Indie With A New Company, Taiko Studios
Details about a new studio and its first project, “One Small Step.”
2018 Oscars: 63 Animated Shorts Are Competing This Year (EXCLUSIVE)
Cartoon Brew has obtained an exclusive list of animated shorts that have qualified in the animated short film category of the upcoming 90th Academy Awards.
70 Animators Banded Together To Re-Animate A Classic Woody Woodpecker Short
Brazilians love Woody Woodpecker so much they re-animated an entire vintage short starring the character.
‘Tomorrow’ Is An Ambitious 14-Minute CG Short From Iran (Trailer)
An Iranian animator launched his own studio to create this independent cg short.
Blue Sky Studios’ Upcoming ‘Spies in Disguise’ Is Based On An Indie Short
Blue Sky’s upcoming “Spies in Disguise” is part of a growing trend in Hollywood to use indie animated shorts as the spark for feature films.
Lots Of Animation Studios Worked Pro Bono To Create ‘Imaginary Friend Society’ For Kids With Cancer
Animation being used for a good cause: helping kids with cancer.
2018 Animated Short Oscar: A List Of Qualified Films In the Category (EXCLUSIVE)
Cartoon Brew presents 60+ films that are known to have qualified for the animated shorts category of the 2018 Academy Awards.
Iran’s Animation Industry Holds First-Ever Tehran Cartoon Sessions
A look inside a unique event in Iran to exchange information and knowledge about animation production techniques.
‘Weekends’ Is A New Independent Short From Pixar Artist Trevor Jimenez (Trailer)
The trailer for “Weekends,” a new hand-animated short with an inviting illustrative style and a Pixar pedigree, debuted online today.
Shinichiro Watanabe Directed A ‘Blade Runner’ Short
The director of “Cowboy Bebop” is putting his stamp on the “Blade Runner” universe. Watch a behind-the-scenes clip.
INTERVIEW: How Jorge Gutierrez Learned to Embrace the Polygon While Making ‘Son of Jaguar’
For a filmmaker, working in vr is like chopping off someone’s legs and telling them to run, says “Son of Jaguar” director Jorge Gutierrez.
Inside Neill Blomkamp’s First Experimental Oats Studios Short ‘Rakka’
Oats Studios isn’t just creating fresh new content, they’re creating a fresh and new approach to the process of making vfx-driven films.
Filmmaker Sean Buckelew Reveals Detailed Process Of Creating ‘Lovestreams’ Short
How do you create an animated short from concept through completion? The process has rarely been as extensively documented as in this making-of piece by filmmaker Sean Buckelew.
Brazen Animation Reveals ‘Tempest’ Feature Film Pitch [Exclusive Making-Of Video]
The Dallas-based independent commercial studio has released a three-minute teaser that combines 2d and 3d animation styles, and complex fluid simulations.
Pixar Created An Experimental Shorts Division, First Film Is ‘Smash And Grab’
Pixar has launched a new internal unit dedicated to experimental storytelling and creating shorts without executive oversight.
It’s Hard to Be A Utopian: Matthew Rankin On His New Film ‘The Tesla World Light’
Matthew Rankin’s new National Film Board of Canada film, “The Tesla World Light,” premiered today at Cannes. He spoke with us about his surreal and abstract project about a legendary scientist.
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